Philippine tanker (ex-ss War Hermit 1918-1919, ss Anatina 1919-1939) Mindanao 1938-1942 (Palembang Maru 1942-1944)

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British First World War standard AO-class merchant tanker. USA-flagged. Owner in 1939 Cia. Maritime, Manilla, Philipines, manager Fernandez Hermanos Inc. Launched down by by J. Brown&Co. Ltd., Clydebank, Scotland with yard number 469 on 28 March 1918, completed in April 1918, owner The Shipping Controller, London, England Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Ltd., London 1919-1927, M.C. Stray, Christiansand, Norway 1927-1938, sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10 February 1942, salvaged, repaired and renamed Palembang Maru in 1942 and torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Baya off Saigon/Cape Varella, French Indochina on 4 March 1945. Gross tonnage 5,235 tons, under deck 4,764 tons, net tonnage 3,156 tons, deadweight7,680  tons and as dimensions 400.7 x 52.3 x 28.5 x 26 (loaded) feet. Oil fuelled reciprocating propulsion, horsepower 489 nhp and speed 10 (normal cruising)-11 (maximum) knots